Sentences with phrase «of mud bricks»

Adobe Wangat Lodge is constructed of mud bricks and locally hewn timber.

Most buildings are made of mud bricks and many people make their living by farming the dry, harsh land.

When I arrived in Kabul, I found that my house was made of mud bricks and was surrounded by a tall mud wall to keep out intruders.

In one case, a shaft led to the burial chamber, constructed of mud brick and sealed.

Ebla is constructed out of mud brick, so without preservation it is vulnerable to erosion.

You can still find gold in the area, particularly around the old town site which is 16 kilometres east of Halls Creek and also features ruins of mud brick buildings and a small cemetery.

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Some of the tukuls had their mud brick walls bashed in.

Dear friends in Jesus Christ, I believe that God has called me to build a Church for him, not with bricks and mud, but with people's hearts, for may be God is speaking to you through me in the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of father to theirs children and the children to their father's to prepare the way for our Lord.

Straight from mud huts to all this brick and plumbing, the narrow village society of caste and family replaced by Boy Scouts, the 4 - H, and evening Bible studies.

To a man who builds a foundation of stone, and above it mud brick.

«There was a big party of people feasting,» says Oates matter - of - factly, passing cookies around the table during afternoon tea in Brak's cramped mud - brick dining hall.

Like hundreds of other mounds in this region, Brak was built up over millennia as homeowners knocked down their decaying mud - brick houses and erected new structures on top of the remains.

In addition to eight caves, they have found remains of five mud - brick ramps that might have been used to ease ships into the water and a shallow rock shelter used for storage and cooking.

Many of the mud - brick walls are well preserved, being up to four meters high and having intact doorways frequently spanned by a vault.

Such a tell, which he described as «Kranzhügel,» or «wreath hill,» is surrounded by a ring, the decomposed mud brick of a circular fortification wall.

Chuera had monumental stone architecture (not just mud brick as in Nabada), and, more significantly, 15 years of digging have as yet yielded no evidence of writing at the Chuera site.

In Napata's heyday, the palace had been a two - story labyrinth of some 60 rooms, but time and the elements had since reduced its crumbling mud - brick walls virtually to ground level.

The large and square mud - brick architecture of the Gonur people may live on, however, in the clan compounds of Afghanistan and in the old caravansaries — rest stops for caravans — that dot the landscape from Syria to China.

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

In June 2001, Wegner pulled a mud - covered brick from the ruins of a palatial house in Abydos, Egypt.

Polz's team began digging near the private tomb until, he says, «we came across the remains of a small pyramid made of unfired mud bricks and a small tomb chapel decorated with the royal name Nub - Kheper - Re.»

Last December's earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam took a huge death toll — roughly 40,000 people — largely because of the collapse of thousands of mud - brick buildings.

If Tsiang's account is correct, the remains of a mud - brick sculpture the size of the Chrysler Building lie buried somewhere under the buckwheat fields.

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

Around 30 per A traditional brick factory is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks from mud by humans.

2018-04-07 17:04 A traditional brick factory is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks from mud by humans.

The mud brick houses of Anatolian villages are the inspiration for the exterior design of the Centre for Inclusive Education in Konya.

At the start of World War II, Doha's 12,000 inhabitants lived in fly - infested, mud - brick houses and longed for the good old days of pearl diving.

Such techniques as building with rectangular sun - dried mud - bricks, imprinting clay with cylinder - seals, the use of certain new styles of ornamentation, and the first attempts at a pictographic system of writing have been traced by some scholars to a Mesopotamian source.

• Chan Chan & Temple of Sun and Moon — built by the pre-Inca Chimu Kings, the largest mud brick city in the world.

On our way through Musanze village, my view of cobblestone streets and mud - brick houses transitions to that of farm fields with rows of plants filled with daisy - like flowers and eucalyptus trees.

Green's Pool Retreat is a stunningly handcrafted mud brick and timber dwelling set amongst coastal peppermint trees adjacent to the William Bay National Park, the coastal jewel of Western Australia's southern coastline.

Due to the scarcity of wood, [1] the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun - baked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.

North of Fujairah city, the mud - brick Al - Bidyah Mosque is the oldest in the United Arab Emirates and was named after the town that once surrounded it.

Other historical attractions include Dhayah Fort, a 16th century mud - brick fort with a strategically - important position on a hilltop, and the Jazirat al - Hamra, the ruins of an abandoned fishing village.

Come and discover the rustic charm of our unique fully self contained four star rated mud brick and timber cottages.

In the center of Mopti, The Great Mosque (or Komoguel Mosque) resembles the well - known Great Mosque of Djenné, built with sun - dried mud bricks.

Here we look at the offspring of five artists — Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Sally Mann, and Donald Judd — to see what they ended up doing with their lives, from becoming an expert on mud brick architecture to designing fragrances.

«Clean bricks are made of mud, we need them for our tower».

Smith once said that Playground, made in 1962, the same year as his seminal work Die, recalled architectural plans of ancient mud - brick buildings.

Here we look at the offspring of five artists — Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Sally Mann, and Donald Judd — to see what they ended up doing with their lives, from becoming an expert on mud brick architecture to preserving the family's legacy.

For her firm's recent pro bono work on Thread, an artists» residency and community center in a remote Senegalese village (and a project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation), Mori moved beyond the modernist box typology with a swooping, parametric structure made from local bamboo, mud brick, and thatch.

He began with a meticulous study of old Arab settlements, including the ancient citadel of Aleppo in Syria and the mud - brick apartment towers of Shibam in Yemen, which date from the 16th century.

Rule by the Berbers from 110 CE gave the country its cultural heritage of constructing buildings from earth or mud brick called pisé, a word from the French, who occupied Morocco as recently as 1912.